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PROFILE

y Holy Cross Community Radio

y Frequency : 90.4 MHz

y Studio : Holy Cross College campus

y Area of coverage : 5-6 Km


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TRANSMISSION

y Total Hours : 10 Hrs.

Morning : 5 Hrs. (6.00 11.00 A.M)

Evening : 5 Hrs. (3.00 8.00 P.M)


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TECHNICAL ASPECTS

yAntenna

Type 2 bay dipoleAngle NA omni directional

Height 30 mts. From Ground level

y Transmitter

50 w

Stereo Audio transmission

Inside the studio


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PRODUCTION FACILITIES

y The station has a good professional audio studio. Apart

from using Cool Edit Pro Software, the community and

students are able to handle Nuendo Software very

efficiently for the production. There around six flashrecorders which we use to record on field.


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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

y Enhancing participation of the local community in the

development process of Capacity-building

y Providing opportunities especially to students, home

makers, and youth and farmers people to upgrade their

skills

y Preserving and promoting traditional wisdom, knowledge

and skills

y Bringing within easy reach of the rura population,topical

information in areas of agriculture, social welfare,

education, health and environment.


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y Vision*Community Radio as a new participatory medium.

y Focus

*Enhancing participation of the local ruralcommunity in development.

*Building capacity through education.

*Providing creative opportunities to upgrade skills inthe field of their interest.


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PRINCIPAL CREW STRUCTUREINSTITUTIONAL HEAD

DIRECTOR OF FM

FM CO-ORDINATOR

STATION MANAGER

TECHNICAL STAFF

STUDENTS OFVISUALCOMMUNICATION

&MEMBERS OF THE

COMMUNITY


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Mrs. Geetha Lakshmi

y Community Member

y Currently, the Station Manager


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OPPORTUNITIES

y The Community Radio Station provides for the Campusand the Community.

y It builds a bridge between the students and community.

y It provides opportunity for the students to be aware of theproblems and the needs of the society render service to

them.

y The community is mutually enriched by sharing theirproblems and participating in the effort towardsdeveloping themselves


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y It provides a platform to explore the hidden talents

y It helps the students & Community to build up writingskills, technical skills and understand the significance

and potential of Radio as a medium of communication

for community development.

y It provides a platform for the interaction of subject

experts, student community and target group.


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PARTICIPATION: COMMUNITY, STUDENTS,

FACULTY

y A months topic given to students in consultationwith the Experts, Community members, Staff by thestaff coordinator


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STUDENTS CONSULTy Specialists, Experts,

y Stored source of information Library, Books, Journals,

Websites

y Script writing students + community members

y Scripts corrected by the Experts

y Programme recorded - students + community members

y Editing Techniciansy Programme aired

y Feed back every Saturday by students + community

members + staff


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LEVEL OF CONNECT WITH MASS

y Weekly appraisal.

y Usefulness of the programme aired is assessed by the

students along with the community members every

saturday.

y Enables us to devise programmes which suit the

requirements of the community.

y Community has self appointed coordinators who organize

the people to ask questions on the particular topic.


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PREFERRED FORMATS

y Integrating wide range of issues creatively in differentformats like skit, magazine, folk songs, quiz, talkshows, discussions, phone in, interviews,characterisation helps to seize the attention of thelisteners.


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MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE

y The well constituted staff and volunteer structure hashelped the station to increase their broadcast hours fromtwo hours to a ten hour of daily broadcast.

y The studentsofthe visualcommunicationdepartment of the college support the communitymembersto produce the programmes, and the technicalstaffat the station takes care of the transmission

procedures. The stationmanagercoordinates theprogramme production and transmission. The Co-ordinator manages the overall funtions of the station.TheDirectortakes care of the financial aspects of the station.


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PROGRAMME

y Music:classical Vocal, instrumental music & folk songs areplayed. A platform to exhibit their talent in music

y Kuraloviam:Thirukural written by the famousTamil poetis read and discussed.

y Sipikul Muthu (SM):stories with morals are narrated.

y Pudhiya Jananam (PJ) :DST sanctioned project.


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y Tik-Tok:live programme based on general knowledge.provides an opportunity to the public to get informed.

y Hello Trichy (HT):days announcements made - include

weather reports, birthday wishes, and anniversaries. publicmake use of the CR to wish their near & dear ones.

y Programme forthedifferentlyabled (PD):Programme

for differently abled; special focus on blind people. Epics,poems, Stories, books, speeches read.

y Indraya Special(IS):different topics discussed.


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PUDHIYA JANANAM

(Science for Women Project)

Supported and Catalyzed by

RVPSP, Department of Science

andTechnology, New Delhi


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y Pudhiya Jananam has provided a platform to the studentsof Visual Communication. Along with the communitymembers, they identify key issues. Apart from creatingawareness on these issues, the station has also improvedthe capacities of the community in writing scripts for the

radio programmes, anchoring, participating in groupdiscussions, presenting live shows etc. This helped thestation to be more participatory.

y

Puthiya Jananam is the series supported by theDepartment of Science and Technology to disseminate andcreate awareness on science, health and nutritious issuesspecifically targeted at enlightening women of Jeeva Nagarand Dharmanathapuram in the HCCR coverage zone.


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yThe series aims at empowering and improving the qualityof life of women through dissemination of scientificknowledge and thereby, the entire community.

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HCCR has produced around 500 episodes of programme onAids, Cancer, Pregnancy, Child care, Tuberculosis, Anemia,Nutrition, water borne disease and other communicableand non communicable diseases.

y The goal of every programme is to keep listeners interestedand equip themselves with sound knowledge in unknownissues primarily on science, health and nutrition.


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INAUGURATION OF PUDHIYA JANANAM

y Inaugurated on 26th June 2007

y FM radio sets were also distributed to 50

women in Jeeva Nagar and Dharmanathapuram


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TARGET COMMUNITY

y Jeeva Nagar

Jeeva Nagar has around 1000 house holds. Majority ofthe women here are housewives. Most of them live instores with no proper toilet and drainage facilities.They do not seem to be bothered about cleanliness.Hindus, Muslims and Christians live in harmony here.It is less than a Kilometer from Holy Cross College.


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y Dharmanathapuram

It has around 500 house holds. Majority of the

Womenfolk in this community are housewives, somework as house maids. The men folk are mostlycobblers.They live in huts. This is truly a slum in thesense there are no toilets in any of the houses and they

sleep, cook, bathe, and wash outside the house.Majority of the population are Christians and Hindus.It is 2 Kilometers from Holy Cross College


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TRANSMISSION DETAILS

y hourProgramme airedfourtimesaday

y 7.00a.m., 9.30a.m., 5.30p.mand7.30p.m.

y 9.30a.m., 5.30p.m and7.30p.m.(repeats)

y Format: Radio Magazine Format, Drama


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NO OF PROGRAMMES

y Total number of programmes produced till date : 366

y By community members: 200

y By students: 366


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NO OF PEOPLE INVOLVEDy Students : 46

y Staff : 3

y Technical staff : 2

y members

Regular : 100

Occasional : 300


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PLANS

y Identifying student leaders

y Formation of Radio Club

y Capacity Building for student and community

y Identifying Community Leaders

y Identifying partner agencies

y Identifying student coordinator

y Identifying Community coordinator


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PARTNER AGENCIES

y Kaveri Medical Centre, Trichy

y CSI Mission Hospital, Trichy

yAyesha Hospital, Trichy

y

Indian Medical Association ,T

richy

y Dr.Safiulla Hospital,Trichy


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We ensure Community participation by:

y Celebrating important days of the Community

y Reading out their names on the Radio

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Making the family listen through students from the communityy Announcing train timings/Announcing weather

y Announcing market information

y Identifying Woman of the week

y Organizing Competitions

y Health camps


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MARCONI RADIO CLUB

y To Recognize and enhance of the value of the Radioservice to the public. To contribute to the advancement

of the radio as a medium of communication. To studyRadios contribution to the development of society.

y Startedon 21st November 2007 with 23members


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ACTIVITIES OF MARCONI RADIO CLUB

y Capacity Building workshop 26th Nov 07

y Script writing work shop 6th Dec 07

y Produced 26 PSAs on social themes aired in Holy Cross

community Radio

y Produced 25 Radio Dramas on social themes aired in Holy

Cross community Radio

y Drawing Competition Revive

y Kolam Competition

y Karanam Ayiram cookery competion (Uses of Keerai)


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DRAWING COMPETITION REVIVE

y School - Syed Mutrasha School and Shanthi Nursery and primary.

y School in Jeeva Nagar to popularize Holy Cross community Radio.

y On February 8, 2007 at 2.00 P.M.

y Topics : Benefits of Radio, Radio Revolution.

y At the end of the competition an orientation about Community

radio.

y Holy Cross Community Radio was given to the staff & school

children.

y The prize winners of the competition were given a Radio Set.


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KOLAM COMPETITION

y Topic Welcome HolyCross CommunityRadio

y Topopularize HolyCross CommunityRadioonDecember 8, 2007at 6.30 A.M

y 45 womenparticipated

y Judges:communitymembers

y Results:announced Dec. 8th Evening Transmission

y Dec. 9th Morning & Evening Transmission


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KARANAM AYIRAM

y Marconi Radio Club organized a Karanam Ayiramcompetition Keerai (Keerai is the Tamil word for

spinach) , for thousand reasons for the Women inJeeva Nagar on June 8, 2008 andDharmanathapuramon June 9, 2008 to create an awareness on the uses ofkeerai and to promote keerai to be included in their

daily diet.


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OT

HER PROMOT

IONSy Stickers

y Posters


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AREAS OF PARTICIPATION -COMMUNITY

y Scripting Programmes.

y GroupDiscussions.

y Radio Jockeying.

y Taking up Live Shows.


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FORMAT OF PROGRAMMES

y Phone-in

y Interview

y Talkshows

y Skitor Dramabasedshows

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Discussions, Quiz

y Characterization

y Folksong


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ADVISORY COMMITTEE II

y 29th March 2008y More Phone-in programmes On Air everydayy songs of Pudhiya Jananam can be reworkedy Release the CD ofThangammaly

To increase community participationy Sunday programme open to ally pollution control board to support the science for women

project.y The topics like HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis can be given

morey Important, as the community has a good number of

HIV/AIDS and TB patients.y To have another advisory meeting


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FUNDING

y The basic funding for the station is from the HolyCross College Management and the Pudhiya

Jananam series - Science for Women Project -commissioned with Rs. 16 lakhs financial assistanceand technical support from the Rashtriya Vigyan EvamProdyogiki Sanchar Parishad, a unit of the Departmentof Science and Technology, New Delhi.


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ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS

y Dr.Jaya Sreedher, Inter News, Chennai

y Dr.Sreedher,Director, CEMCA

y

Ms.Ujjwala,D

ST

y Dr.Sr.Sarguna, Principal, Holy Cross, College

y Mrs. ShirleyDeepak,HOD,Dept. of Vis. Com, Holy Cross,College

y Mrs.Geetha Lakshmi, Jeeva Nagar

y Mrs. Mercy, Dharmanathapuram


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